Casa del Marqués
A broad courtyard.
Galio — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Blbna15 — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Josefito123 — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Josefito123 — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pablo Ramón Vidaurre — CC BY-SA 4.0
Yavi is a small adobe village at 3,516 metres on the Puna plateau, in Argentina's far north near the Bolivian border, about sixteen kilometres from La Quiaca. In colonial times it was the seat of the Marquisate of the Valle de Tojo, the only noble title ever created in what is now Argentina, and an obligatory stop on the trade road between the River Plate and the silver mines of Potosí. It was declared a Historic Place in 1975. Its quiet earth streets are lined with adobe houses and wooden doors; its best-known buildings are the Casa del Marqués, the old estate's main house with its broad courtyard, and a seventeenth-century church counted among the oldest in the region. Around it rise red hills, narrow valleys and poplars along the river, golden in autumn. Wandering is free; the air is thin at this altitude, so walk slowly. The sun is strong by day and nights are very cold all year.
A broad courtyard.
Puna calm.
Around the village.
About 16 km east of La Quiaca, far north of Jujuy province
It was the seat of the Marquisate of the Valle de Tojo, the only noble title created in what is now Argentina.